Beginners welcome! No experience necessary.

Learn watercolor composition, materials and techniques. Never picked up a brush? This is the class for you. Dabbled in watercolor? This is the class for you, too — it provides a solid foundation and a fun environment to grow and experiment. Class format includes demonstrations, work time and supportive group critiques where you can ask questions and learn from your fellow classmates.

• Download your syllabus and materials list here.

• If one class is postponed due to weather or unforeseen instructor circumstances, the rain date is December 2.

Open Studio time is included with registration. Open Studio allows currently enrolled students to work on their projects in Oklahoma Contemporary’s studios outside of class meetings. Availability varies weekly, and times are posted outside each studio.

PLEASE NOTE: THIS CLASS BEGINS ON OCTOBER 7.

You requested an oil painting class and here it is! This beginner-friendly class teaches skills of blocking-in, separating light from shadow, setting up proper value relationships, getting the light effect, color relationships and more.

Who knows, maybe after eight weeks you’ll build a scaffold in your living room and lie on your back for four years painting your ceiling?

• Download your syllabus and materials list here.

• If one class is postponed due to weather or unforeseen instructor circumstances, the rain date is December 9.

Open Studio time is included with registration. Open Studio allows currently enrolled students to work on their projects in Oklahoma Contemporary’s studios outside of class meetings. Availability varies weekly, and times are posted outside each studio.

No experience necessary! Join artist Isa Rodriguez to get unstuck and be more creative. There are as many ways to draw as there are people who want to draw. In this class, you’ll practice drawing techniques like gesture, contour, scribbling (yes, scribbling is drawing), tracing, collage, automatic drawing and other stuff.

What will you be drawing? What won’t you be drawing? Let’s have some fun.

• Download your syllabus and materials list here.
• If one class is postponed due to weather or unforeseen instructor circumstances, the rain date is December 2.

Open Studio time is included with registration. Open Studio allows currently enrolled students to work on their projects in Oklahoma Contemporary’s studios outside of class meetings. Availability varies weekly and times are posted outside each studio.

This is a four-week class.

Learn to watercolor all your fall feels. So long to summer-wet-air-all-I-do-is-sweat-seaon and hooray to the beginning of sweater-scarf-vibrant-leaves-crisp-air-pumpkin-spice*-everything season. No watercolor experience needed.

You can find the syllabus here.

• If one class is postponed due to weather or unforeseen instructor circumstances, the rain date is October 29.

Open Studio time is included with registration. Open Studio allows currently enrolled students to work on their projects in Oklahoma Contemporary’s studios outside of class meetings. Availability varies weekly and times are posted outside each studio.

* Loathe it or love it, we won't force pumpkin spice upon you, although you're welcome to bring a big hot mug of pumpkin spice whatever and as you savor it whisper quietly to yourself, dang, I love fall.

Beginners welcome! Make painting fun again. You'll experiment with color, surface, composition, the materiality of paint. Enjoy the freedom of painting without the burden of realistic representation. We will look at modern and contemporary painters for inspiration!

• Download your syllabus and materials list here.

• If one class is postponed due to weather or unforeseen instructor circumstances, the rain date is December 3.

Open Studio time is included with registration. Open Studio allows currently enrolled students to work on their projects in Oklahoma Contemporary’s studios outside of class meetings. Availability varies weekly and times are posted outside each studio.

Right Image, Mary Heilman, Wonder Waves, 2022. Acrylic on Canvas, 32 by 24 in.

Left Image, Gerhard Richter, Abstraktes Bild (809-2), 1994. Oil on canvas, 88½ x 78¾ in.

Learn how to draw dogs because life is hard, and dogs make everything better. Each class features a dog super model. You’ll learn dog anatomy and techniques for quick sketches and finished drawings, and if you’re lucky, maybe you’ll get your face licked.

• Download your syllabus and materials list here.

• If one class is postponed due to weather or unforeseen instructor circumstances, the rain date is December 14.

Open Studio time is included with registration. Open Studio allows currently enrolled students to work on their projects in Oklahoma Contemporary’s studios outside of class meetings. Availability varies weekly, and times are posted outside each studio.

This is an advanced drawing class, previous drawing instruction required such as Creative Drawing, Beginning Drawing, or equivalent.

Learn traditional drawing techniques with a fresh, contemporary approach. Hone your drawing skills while developing individual style. Create finished work and expand your portfolio.

• Download your syllabus and materials list here.

• If one class is postponed due to weather or unforeseen instructor circumstances, the rain date is December 7.

Open Studio time is included with registration. Open Studio allows currently enrolled students to work on their projects in Oklahoma Contemporary’s studios outside of class meetings. Availability varies weekly and times are posted outside each studio.